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SEOUL (By Se Young Lee, Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. More here.  #research

I just found an announcement that JetBlue has formed an in-house venture capital program that will invest in startups “at the intersection of technology, travel and hospitality.” More here: http://www.jetblueventures.com/ #research

From an article on the Harvard Business Rreview, the authors carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to this analysis, we identified four features that are common to pretty much all the unicorns and which we believe helps explain why they have been so successful. Unicorns…

The blurb for the report says it all: The life of an S&P 500 company is rapidly declining and increasingly, the risks to these companies comes from an armada of startups and not a giant incumbent competitor. We dig into how corporations can use startups to innovate faster and how to make the important build,…

From this article on the Financial Times (you may find its behind a paywall): Axa chief excited by technological change The chief executive of Europe’s second-biggest insurer by market capitalisation says that the industry is dealing with technological change unevenly. “That is great news,” he adds, explaining that it allows more nimble operators to win…

Some very interesting articles over the last few weeks – here they are: MasterCard Announces Start Path Global Program – an accelerator to support Fintech startups. Like this statement on their site – very intrapreneurial: “Like a startup, we are always looking for ways to evolve. That’s why we have created a new partnership model…

Woah, just came across this site today with probably the most comprehensive and impressive Intrapreneurship program I’ve seen so far – definitely one for the #research files. Here it is: http://www.afce.co/

From VentureBeat where the article was posted, these pertinent points for why I will be incorporating some of the thinking here in the trend report: Today, large companies are creating innovation outposts in innovation clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. These corporate innovation outposts monitor Silicon Valley for…

A list of articles from the last week or so: How to Drive Intrapreneurship Within Your Business to Create Truly Great Innovation The Rapidly Maturing Intrapreneur Competence: Notes from the 2015 Corporate Intrapreneur Summit This professional services firm found an innovative way to get big corporations to think small 7 Ways Corporations Are Driving Entrepreneurship…